• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.319-325
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• 2015

This paper presents an efficient vibration energy harvester with a piezoelectric (PE) cantilever. The proposed PE energy harvester increases the efficiency through minimization of hardware complexity and hence reduction of power dissipation of the circuit. Two key features of the proposed energy harvester are (i) incorporation synchronized switches with a simple control circuit, and (ii) a feed-forward buck converter with a simple control circuit. The chip was fabricated in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS processing technology, and the measured results indicate that the proposed rectifier achieves the efficiency of 77%. The core area of the chip is 0.2 mm2.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.916-926
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• 1994

A high frequency and soft-switched AC-to-DC rectifier employing a series-type resonant circuit is proposed to overcome the disadvantages of the conventional peak-rectifying circuit. Using the proposed rectifier, the high power factor and low harmonic currents are obtained in the AC line. Furthermore, several advantages such as the high power density and wide output voltage range can be available. Through the simulation and experimental results, the usefulness of the proposed rectifier is verified.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.2088-2090
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• 1998

A low-cost electronic starter is developed to decrease ignition failure significantly through successive starting trial and to prevent overheating at the end of fluorescent lamp life. Moreover, it has an additional feature of being capable of ignition at the recovered lamp voltage without any circuit correction. The developed electronic starter is consisted of four parts - a half wave rectifier circuit, a timer circuit, a switching circuit and a protection circuit. The protection circuit made up of a transistor and capacitors utilizing capacitive characteristics, carries out successive starting trial and end-of-life protection. Lamp ignition is completed within 0.5 seconds with taking advantage of a high preheating current from the half-wave rectifier circuit. Nevertheless, its performance is proved to be very excellent through a standard switching endurance test.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.514-514
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• 2000

In this article, the realization of a precision full-wave rectifier circuit for analog signal processing, which operates throughout in the current domain, is presented. The circuit makes use of a MOS class B/AB configuration, and provides a wide dynamic range and wide-band capability. The rectifier has a simple circuit configuration and is suitable for implementing in CMOS integrated circuit form as versatile building block. The characteristic of the circuit exhibits a low distortion en the output signal at low level input signal. PSPICE simulation results demonstrating the characteristic of the proposed circuit are included.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.1099-1107
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• 2019

A soft switching converter with wide voltage range operation is investigated in this paper. A series resonant converter is implemented to achieve a high circuit efficiency with soft switching characteristics on power switches and rectifier diodes. To improve the weakness of the narrow voltage range in LLC converters, an alternating current (ac) power switch is used on the primary side to select a half-bridge or full-bridge resonant circuit to implement 4:1 voltage range operation. On the secondary-side, another ac power switch is adopted to select a full-wave rectifier or voltage-doubler rectifier to achiever an additional 2:1 output voltage range. Therefore, the proposed resonant converter has the capacity for 8:1 (320V~40V) wide output voltage operation. A single-stage hybrid resonant converter is employed in the study circuit instead of a two-stage dc converter to achiever wide voltage range operation. As a result, the study converter has better converter efficiency. The theoretical analysis and circuit characteristics are verified by experiments with a prototype circuit.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.529-536
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• 2019

스마트 센서 시스템에 압전 에너지 하베스터를 적용하기 위해서는 AC-DC 정류기를 비롯한 에너지 하베스트 인터페이스 회로가 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 기본적인 회로인 Full Bridge Rectifier(: FBR) 회로와 동기식 압전 에너지 하베스트 인터페이스 회로의 성능을 보드레벨 시뮬레이션으로 비교하였다. 그 결과, 동기식 압전 에너지 하베스트 인터페이스 회로 중 하나인 Synchronous Electric Charge Extraction(: SECE) 회로가 FBR에 비해 출력 전력이 약 4 배 이상 더 컸고, 부하 변동에도 변화가 거의 없었다. 그리고, 출력 전압이 40V 이상인 압전 에너지 하베스터용 SECE 회로에 필수적인 고전압 비교기를 0.35 um BCD 공정으로 설계하였다. 설계한 고전압 비교기를 적용한 SECE 회로는 출력 전력이 FBR 회로 보다 427 % 향상됨을 검증하였다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.18-24
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• 2019

In this paper, expandable bobbin type multiple integrated coupled-inductor applied 4-paralled switching rectifier was proposed. To design the proposed inductor easily, inductance designing formula was derived through magnetic circuit analysis of the 4-paralleled integrated coupled-inductor. Furthermore, to verify practicality of the proposed inductor, it was applied in 600W class 4-paralleled interleaved switching rectifier, and the steady-state characteristics of the proposed inductor and discrete inductors were compared. Consequently, it was showed that the proposed inductor can replace the conventional discrete inductors with alternative electrical characteristic standard, hence miniaturization of the SMPS can be achieved. From the test result, test circuit with the proposed inductor showed maximum 97.1% of power conversion efficiency and under 18W of power loss where the circuit with discrete inductors showed 96.7% and 20W respectively.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.90-94
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 고주파 대역 중에서 에너지 전송과 관련되어 정류 회로의 구조와 특성을 분석하고, 최대의 효율을 이끌어 낼 수 있는 방안을 찾고자 한다. 13.56MHz에서의 입력 신호를 DC 변환하여 실험 및 측정을 하였다. 정류회로는 반파 정류회로, 전파정류회로 브릿지 정류회로로 나눌 수 있고, 최대 효율을 갖기 위해서 다양한 정류 회로를 전산 모의 실험하였다. 현재까지의 연구 내용은 passive 소자를 이용한 효율 개선에 중점을 두고 실험을 하였다. 정류 효율에 영향을 미치는 요소는 소자의 특성에 좌우하며, 이번 실험에서는 약 70%의 효율을 측정할 수 있었으며, 보다 개선된 소자를 사용함으로서 낮은 입력에서 높은 효율을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.107-113
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• 1987

A complete design of a new digital control circuit for a three-phase controlled rectifier is presented. The circuit consists of a gating signal generating ROM, down counter and adder. Proposed scheme is simple and quite adequate to the microprocessor-based digitally controlled systems. The basic principle and operation characteristics of the circuit are described and experimental-results show good dynamic performance. Synchronization problem with noisy reference is also discussed. The basic phylosophy developed can be extended to the other phase control system, e.g., cycloconverters, ac voltoge controllers, etc.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.55-63
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• 2007

This paper proposes a simple unity power factor zero-voltage-transition (ZVT) pulse-width-modulated (PWM) single-phase rectifier, which features reduced switching and conduction losses. The switching loss reduction is achieved by a simple auxiliary commutation circuit, and the conduction loss reduction is achieved by employing a single-stage converter, rather than a typical double-stage converter comprising of a front-end rectifier and a boost rectifier. Furthermore, thanks to good features such as a simple PWM control at constant frequency, low switch stress, low Var rating of commutation circuits, and simple power circuit structure, it is suitable for high power applications. The principles of operation are explained in detail, and a major characteristics analysis and the experimental results of the new converter are also included in this paper.